A man with intellectual disabilities was executed in the United States after refusing a last meal and just asking for a bottle of Sprite, it is reported.
A divided Supreme Court made a last ditch decision to execute Matthew Reeves, 43, at Holman Prison, in Alabama, on Thursday.
Reeves’ defence lawyers claimed the execution should not go ahead due to his intellectual disability that had also cost him the opportunity to choose a less “torturous” method of dying.
